Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 84
United States National Museum. Department of Engineering and Industries
Records, 1891-1957
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | United States National Museum. Department of Engineering and Industries |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1891-1957 |
Quantity: | 7.5 cu. ft. (15 document boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 84 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records originated mostly in the office of the Head Curator of the Department of Engineering and Industries, United States National Museum, under Carl Weaver Mitman and Frank A. Taylor, but include records of several other curators, primarily Smith Hempstone Oliver and Paul Edward Garber. The records include general correspondence, memoranda, and administrative files concerning departmental accessions, administrative policy and budgetary matters, exhibits, and requests for photographs for publication; minutes of a steering committee to establish a Smithsonian endowment fund; outgoing correspondence and summaries of the work of the Sections of Fisheries and Naval Architecture under Joseph William Collins, 1891-1894; an incomplete set of scripts and programs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and news clippings concerning radio programs on technology and science aired on THE WORLD IS YOURS; and subject files consisting of correspondence and memoranda covering areas and individuals in the engineering and technological sciences. |
Descriptive Entry
These records originated mostly in the office of the Head Curator of the Department of Engineering and Industries, under Carl W. Mitman and Frank A. Taylor, but include records of several other curators, primarily Smith Hempstone Oliver and Paul E. Garber. The records include general correspondence, memoranda, and administrative files concerning departmental accessions, administrative policy and budgetary matters, exhibits, and requests for photographs for publication; minutes of a steering committee to establish a Smithsonian endowment fund; outgoing correspondence and summaries of the work of the sections of Fisheries and Naval Architecture under Joseph William Collins, 1891-1894; an incomplete set of scripts and programs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and news clippings concerning radio programs on technology and science aired on "The World Is Yours;" and subject files consisting of correspondence and memoranda covering areas and individuals in the engineering and technological sciences.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Collins, J. W. (Joseph William), 1839-1904
- Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992
- Mitman, Carl Weaver, 1889-
- Oliver, Smith Hempstone
- Taylor, Frank A. (Frank Augustus), 1903-2007
- United States National Museum. Department of Arts and Industries
- United States National Museum. Section of Fisheries
- United States National Museum. Section of Naval Architecture
- World is yours (Radio program)
Subject
- Art and industry
- Engineering
- Industries
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Collection management
- Science and industry
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 84, United States National Museum. Department of Engineering and Industries, Records
Container List
Box 1
American Automobile Association, 1920-1947, 1949
American Museum of Natural History, 1921, 1928, 1933, 1948
The American Neptune, 1939-1943
American Railway Association, 1927
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, c. 1926-1932, 1942
American Transit Association, 1932-1933
Armstrong, Jefferson, 1948
Gordon Meade Atherholt, 1929
Atkins, Aylor, 1921-1928, 1934-1955
Autocar Company, 1921-1923, 1947-1948
Automobile Electric Company, 1924-1927, 1937, 1947
Automobile Old Timers, 1939-1954
Babcock and Wilcoy Company, c. 1923-1930, 1940
Balwin Locomotive Works, 1924, 1926
Bailey-Bates, 1927-1954
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1935-1936, 1954
James P. Barry, c. 1937-1942
Beck - Bartrand, 1906-1954
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., c. 1925-1928
Berliner, Emile, 1916, 1922-1924
Bernard Berenson, 1938, 1940, 1946-1948
Bicycle Institute of America - Bishop, 1950-1953
Box 2
Board of Economic Warfare - Bohnet, 1941-1952
Boston Museum of Automotive Conveyance, 1933-1938
Marion V. Brewington, 1927, 1931-1932, 1939-1942, 1945
The Buda Company, 1924, 1943
Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company, c. 1929-1931
Bureau of American Ethnology, 1953
Bureau of Mines, 1922-1923, 1928-1933
Brenou and Morgan Associates - Bryan, 1921-1952
Bureau of Fisheries - Byrtnes, 1920-1941
Cadillac Motor Car Division, 1947
N. W. Canter, 1935-1936
Cape May Point Shipwreck, 1938
Carter - Caswell, 1950-1951
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1923
Charles B. Chaney, 1922-1927
Chesapeake Model, 1941
Chicago World's Fair, 1933
Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934, 1942
Civil Works Administration, 1933-1935
Clark - Clymer, 1932, 1953-1954
Clark Equipment Company, 1925
Edward Strong Clark, 1940-1942, 1947
Louis S. Clarke, c. 1947-1950, 1954
Coast Guard - Coykendall, 1929-1954
Consolidation Coal Company, 1928, 1935
Corning Colars Works, 1922-1924, 1929-1930
Box 3
Cramer - Cutler Hammer Manufacturing Company, 1926-1953
Ralph E. Cropley, 1937-1939
Ralph E. Cropley, 1940-1941
Ralph E. Cropley, 1942-1943
Ralph E. Cropley, 1944-1946
Ralph E. Cropley, 1947-1953
Daimler-Benz - Duryea, 1947-1954
Roderic F. Davis, 1929-1931, 1940-1941
Dictionary of American Biography, 1926-1928
Dictionary of American Biography, 1929
Dictionary of American Biography, 1930-1931
Dictionary of American Biography, 1932-1935
Dictionary of American Biography, undated
Carl P. Dietz, c. 1936-1942
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, 1929-1932, 1938, 1949
George B. Douglas, 1926, 1930-1933
J. Francis Driscoll, 1939-1941
Box 4
Eaton Manufacturing Company, c. 1941-1947
Jose E. Echevarria, 1945-1946
George H. Eckhardt, 1925-1926
Edison Lamp Works, 1922-1930
Edison Pioneers - George M. Wardlaw and Frank A. Wardlaw, 1926-1933, 1936
Eichner - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1923-1956
Elgin Watchmakers College, c. 1925-1928, 1931
Oreton G. Ellis, Jr., c. 1939-1942, 1946, 1950
Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company, 1937, 1940
James A. Emmet, 1940, 1942
Erie Enameling Company, 1948
Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild - Flying, 1931-1941
Ford Motor Company, c. 1933-1949
William Ford, 1941
Fortune, 1939-1944
Forward - Foxboro Company, 1922-1923, 1953
4-H Clubs, 1927-1932, 1935
Franklin Institute, 1928-1931, 1948-1949
Franklin Machine Company
H. C. Frey, 1937-1938
William Garden, 1947-1949
General Electric Company, c. 1920-1930, c. 1936-1941, c. 1946-1949
Guion M. Gest, 1930, 1932, 1935
Gibson, Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company, 1921-1922, 1952
B. F. Goodrich Company - Goulds Manufacturing Company, 1921-1923, 1951-1952
Charles A. Goodwin, 1937-1938
Gray Marine Motor Company - Guibers Diesel Engine Company, 1941-1954
Elgin Groseclose, 1941
Box 5
Ralph P. Hall, Inc. - Hamilton Watch Company, 1920-1923, 1946
Harrison - Harvard Library, 1949-1950
Gertrude Hartman, 1930-1932, 1940
Ferdinand T. Haschka, 1921, 1925-1926
Haschka Library, 1940
M. C. M. Hatch, 1941-1943
Lawrence J. Hathaway, 1931-1936, 1940, 1948
Peter Helch, 1946-1952
W. R. Hicks, Hinrichs, 1944-1954
Horological Institute of America, 1921-1928, 1932, 1942
Emmet Hoskins, 1939, 1951-1952
E. Howard Clock Company - Paul B. Hugette Company, 1921-1954
Hudson River Day Line, 1928, 1939, 1947
George M. Hughes, 1947-1950
Independent Pioneer Telephone Association - Instrument Society of America, 1927-1954
Ingersoll Watch Company Inc., 1929-1930
Insurance Company of North America, 1934-1939, 1942
International Nickel Company, 1926-1928, 1942
Jack - Justice Department, 1921-1955
T. Lamar Jackson, 1931-1932, 1937
The Jeweler's Circle, 1922-1930
Box 6
Kansas State Historical Society - Keystone Publishing Company, 1920-1922, 1949-1953
C. W. Kelsey, 1947
R. de Kerchove, c. 1935-1948
Kibbey - Knipe, 1933-1954
Martin T. Kimman, 1931-1932
Richard S. Kirby, c. 1930-1939
Vaclav Klement, 1927, 1930-1931
Charles F. Kramer, 1893, 1906, 1930-1933, 1953
Herbert W. Krieger, 1941-1942, c. 1948-1954
La Bov - Lazar, 1925-1954
Landis Valley Museum, 1934
Charles F. Lawson, 1921-1924, 1926
Leader - Lewton, 1922, 1932-1933, 1954
C. Raymond Lewis, 1936, 1947
Libaire - Library of Congress, 1932-1936, 1947-1952
E. S. Lincoln, 1945, 1947-1948
The Lincoln School of Teachers College, 1927-1929, 1932
Locke - Lord, 1922, 1929-1938, 1949
Los Angeles County Museum, 1930, 1932, 1949
Lucas, Lytle, 1932-1951
Donald M. Macaulay, 1942-1944
Macheth - Evans Glass Company, 1922-1923
Bill McCoy, 1934-1938, 1940-1943
McGirr - Merrill, 1920-1925, 1932-1935, 1940-1948, 1950-1954
Thomas McKean, 1947
Thomas F. McMaws, 1935, 1938-1939
Paul R. Maloney, 1933-1939
Mariner's Museum, 1934-1944
Ransom Matthews, 1927-1928, 1939-1942
Meridan Gravure Co., 1934
Metropolitan Society of Model Engineers, 1943-1944
Middle East Assistance, 1949-1950
Benjamin L. Miller, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1928
J. Earl Miller, 1929, 1931
Milliken - Minuse, 1938-1941, 1948-1953
C. Bradsford Mitchell, 1941
Box 7
Moffitt - Murdock, 1920, 1926-1927, 1948-1952
William S. Monroe, 1931-1932
Bredo M. de Morgenstierne, 1947-1948
Morris Fertilizer Company, 1921-1924
Oscar W. Mueller, 1939-1940
Museum of Science and Industry, 1928-1931, 1948-1949
Museums of the Peaceful Arts, 1926-1927
M. J. Myers, 1935-1936
National Archives, 1940-1941
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, 1920-1921, 1925, 1929-1930
National Cash Register Company - Norton-Pike Company, 1921, 1926-1927, 1939, 1942, 1952
National Inventors Council, 1943-1944
National Park Service, 1933-1936, 1941
National Preservation Association, 1927-1928, 1933, 1936
Robert F. Nattan, 1930-1932
National Research Council, 1920-1921, 1923
Nautical Research and Model Society of Chicago, 1939-1940
Navy Department, 1920, c. 1928-1936, c. 1946-1950
Newcomen Society, 1931-1934
New Haven Clock Company, 1927-1932, 1936, 1946
New Jersey Zinc Co., 1930-1931, 1941
New York Central System, 1934, 1940
New York Museum of Science and Industry, 1927-1932
New York Times, 1930-1932, 1935, 1939
Norton Company, 1927
W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1942
O'Keefe - Openlander, 1920, 1934-1935, 1941-1946, 1950, 1954
Ransom E. Olds, 1946-1947
Smith Hemptone Oliver, 1936-1937, 1940, 1943-1945
Box 8
Brooks Palmer, 1948-1956
William Parish, 1927-1930
Commission of Patents, 1925, 1940-1941, 1946-1956
Peabody Museum, 1923-1924, 1929-1930, 1936-1945
D. Cameron Peck, 1946-1950
Pennsylvania Department of Health, 1933, 1938
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1926-1933, 1938-1939, 1946-1947, 1953
Perfect Circle Corporation, 1947
The Pfaudler Company, 1928-1929, 1936
Philadelphia Electric Company, 1929-1931
Pinckney, Pauline A., 1940-1941
Place, Walter S., 1938-1940
Popular Mechanics, 1927-1932, 1941, 1953
Portland Cement Association, 1925, 1929, 1940-1941
Post Office Department, 1939
Potomac Electric Power Co., 1932, 1936
Potter, H. W., 1941-1943
Power, 1927-1930
Pacey - Pyroil Company, 1922-1923, 1931, 1938
Railway and Locomotion Historical Society, Inc., 1922, 1932-1935, 1947
Reading Company, 1942-1946, 1950
Regents Meeting Exhibits, 1954
Remington Rand, Inc., 1929-1930, 1935-1937, 1946
Republic Flow Meters Company, 1922-1923
Reutershan, Joseph, 1948-1951
Riley Stoken Corp., 1930
Roberts Everett Association, 1930
Robinson, Ralph J., 1941
Roth, Walter A., 1929
Royal Typewriter Company, Inc., 1920-1923, 1935
Rusk, Henry, 1937-1938, 1941-1942
Railway Magazine - Roy, 1928, 1942, 1946, 1954
Box 9
Saunder Car, 1931
Sawyer, Philip, 1937-1945
Scher, Max, 1937-1941
Science Museum London, 1923, 1925, 1931-1932, 1935-1939, 1947, 1952-1953
Science Service, 1925, 1928
Scientific American, 1920, 1935
Sea Scouts, 1939-1941
Seth Thomas Clock Company, 1932-1933
Serp, Irvin J., 1941-1942
Smith, Captain Edgar C., 1922-1923
Smith, James Calvert, 1937-1943
Society of Automotive Engineers, 1927-1931, 1936, 1941
South Bent Lathe Works, 1925, 1931, 1935, 1937
Southern Railway Company, 1927, 1931-1932
Sprinkle, Lt. Leland W., 1939-1942
Steam Power Plant Engineering Exhibit, 1927-1928
Steinlein, Eric J., 1937-1940
Stephens, William Barclay, 1953-1955
Stevens Institute of Technology, 1928-1930
Strother, Paul, 1941-1942
Stuart, William W., 1934-1956
Sivartchild, Samuel, 1922
San Francisco Museum of Science and Industry - Sperry, 1920-1929, 1932-1934, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1946-1954
Stohler - Staver, 1930-1955
Stloffens - Stewart, 1924-1927, 1934, 1940, 1945-1954
Stick - Styles, 1921-1928, 1932-1954
Seedler, Szytkowski, 1925, 1931, 1937-1942, 1947-1954
Box 10
Taylor, Edward C., 1932, 1935
Taylor, Frank A., 1926-1936
Taylor, Frank A., 1937-1938
Taylor, Frank A., 1939-1942
Taylor Instrument Companies, 1924-1929
Time, Inc., 1943-1944
Tolman, Ruel P., 1926, 1930, 1933, 1941-1942
Traylor, James S., 1922-1923
Trembly, Royal H., 1938-1940
True, Webster P., 1930-1941, 1945-1949, 1951
Taher - Tayloe, 1922-1926, 1934-1954
Tearell - Thygeson, 1923-1926, 1933-1942, 1946-1954
Tichenor - Townsend, 1924, 1928-1930, 1934-1954
Tracy - Tynell, 1921-1931, 1938-1954
Union Carbide Company, 1928-1929, 1935
United States Geological Survey, 1921-1923, 1932
United States Steel Corporation, 1938-1944
Uehling Instrument Company - Usine, 1920-1953
Virnelson, Marion H., 1937-1938
U-M Corporation - Vuleon Corporation, 1921-1941, 1946-1956
Box 11
Walthan Watch Company, 1922-1923, 1928, 1939, 1947, 1956
War Agencies, Aid to, 1941-1945
War Effort, General, 1942 and undated
War - Evacuation of Specimens, 1942
Warren, J. G. H., 1928, 1931
Washington Ship Model Society, 1933-1939, 1942-1945
Waterman, Jr., George H., 1941-1942
Watkins, William N. - Wood Technology, 1926
Weiss, Helena M. - Correspondence Division, 1946-1956
Western Electric Company, 1920-1933, 1945-1946
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1921-1923, 1927-1940
Westinghouse Exhibit, 1936-1938
Wetmore, Alexander, 1925-1934
Wetmore, Alexander, 1935-1947
White, George V., 1937-1941
Whitebread, Charles - Medicine and Public Health, 1928, 1937
Wooley, Claude L., 1922
Worcester Salt Company, 1921-1922, 1946
Works Progress Administration, 1936-1942
World Power Conference, Third, 1936
Wyer, Samuel S., 1921-1933
Box 12
Waage - Ways, 1923-1956
WHAM - Whyte, 1924, 1931-1936, 1940-1942, 1946-1956
Wickmiller - Wiznuk, 1926-1927, 1933-1956
Woerner, Worthley, 1926-1929, 1932, 1935-1937, 1940-1956
Wragg - Wyoming, 1935-1938, 1941-1942, 1947-1948, 1951-1956
Yale - Zust, 1921-1926, 1930-1932, 1938-1940, 1945-1955
Weather Bureau, 1895, 1921-1956
Outgoing Correspondence, Section of Fisheries, 1891-1894
Box 13
Arts and Industries Building, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1934-1935, 1939, 1947
Arts and Industries, Department of, 1935
Brief Outline of the Rules and Practices of the USNM
Bureaucracy, 1932, 1952
Cases, Museum, 1937
Committee on the Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1941
Condemnations, 1921, 1935-1955
Engineering, Division of, 1935-1939
Engineering, Division of, Budgets, 1928, 1930-1935, 1937-1938, 1947-1958
Exhibits, 1938, 1953
General Memoranda, 1949-1956
History, Division of, 1935
Joe Shuts, 1928-1932
Management Improvement Records, 1953-1954
Material Loaned, 1949-1956
Mechanical Technology, Division of, 1919-1920
Mineral and Mechanical Technology, Division of, 1935
Photo Services, 1938
Policy, 1932
Smithsonian Endowment Fund - Steering Committee, 1925-1926
Smithsonian Institution, 1939, 1942
Aeronautics, 1928, 1931, 1936-1941
Anecdotes, 1928, 1931
Astrophysics, 1928
Automobiles, 1939, 1948
Automobiles and Carriages, 1930, 1935
Automobile and Coaches, 1928, 1932
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1925, 1927-1930, 1933, 1935, 1946
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1937
Berliner, Emile, 1930
Box-Making, 1929
Boyden, Urian Atherton, 1956
Box 14
Calculating Machines, 1936
Carriages, 1932, 1942
Ceramics, 1925-1926, 1931
Clock, 1928, 1930-1932
Coal Mine, 1935
Corliss, 1928, 1930-1931, 1938
Diesel Engine, 1929
Doyle, Aida M., 1927, 1931
Duryea, Charles E., 1936-1938
Dynamo, 1930
Electric Railway, 1928
Electricity, 1927, 1930, 1933
Ellicott, Andrew, 1929, 1931, 1934-1935
Ellis, Orange Warner, 1929
Felt, Don E., 1936
Firearms, 1937
Frank, Paul M., 1921-1924
Frederick, Maryland, Inverclock, 1932
Garber, Paul, 1922, 1933, 1936, 1941-1943
Garber, Paul, 1941 (Accession 11-076)
General Electric Company, 1933-1934
Gilbreth, Frank B., 1938
Grof, John Enos, 1931-1936
Groy, Elisha, 1933
Great Lakes Exhibition, 1937
Hammer, William J., 1938
Henry, Joseph, 1931
Historic American Merchant Marine Survey, 1936-1937, 1941
Holcomb, Amasa M., 1933
Hough, Walter, 1921, 1927-1928
Internal Combustion Engines, 1948
Iron Industry, 1936
John Bull, 1931
Johnson, John, 1929
Kidder, Moses W., 1929
Krieger, Herbert W., 1934, 1939-1940
Lewton, Frederick L., 1926, 1928, 1938, 1940-1942
Locomotives, 1936
Lodge, John Ellerton, 1932
Machine Tools, 1923
Merrill, George P., 1922, 1929
Mitman, Carl W., 1920-1931
Mitman, Carl W., 1932-1948
Mitman, Carl W., 1940 (Accession 11-076)
Mitman - "Beginning of the Mechanical Transport Era in America"
Correspondence, 1930-1931, 1939
Morse, Samuel F. B., 1924, 1939
Museum of the Peaceful Arts, 1929
Box 15
National Museum of Engineering and Industry, 1927
New York Museum of Science and Industry, 1940
New York World's Fair, 1940
Norden Bombsight, Victor Adding Machine Company, c. 1947 (Accession 14-045)
Oliver, Smith Hempstone, 1948, 1951-1956
Otto Gas Engine, 1929
Page, Charles Grafton, 1931
Paintings, 1924
Patent Office Models, 1937
Peate, John, 1934-1935
Phonographs, 1937
Physics, 1939
Pizzini, Andre D., 1942-1945
Palumater Drill, 1930
Power, 1933
Radio, 1930, 1938, 1942
Railroads, 1937
Rail Transportation, 1946, 1951
Ravenel, William, 1918, 1922-1932
Refrigeration, 1935, 1939, 1941
Rumsey, James, undated
Science and Industry, Museum of, 1929
Sextant, 1930
Sheffield Corporation, 1945
Shortridge, Arnold, 1942
Slocum, Joshua, 1946
Sperry, E., 1928
Stage Coach, 1932
Steam Engine, 1929-1931
Stejneger, Leonhard, 1923, 1937
Stourbridge Lion, 1931-1932
Stuntz, Jr., Stephen C., 1938, 1940-1942, 1945
Taylor, Frank A., 1932-1942, 1946
Theft, 1934-1937
Timekeeping, 1929, 1944
Typewriters, 1942
Uniflow Steam Engine, 1932
United States National Museum, 1943
Vanderbilt Cup, 1934
Watercraft, 1937-1939, 1948
Watt Steam Engine, 1929-1930, 1936
Weights and Measures, 1933
Weston, Edward, 1940
"The World is Yours" Correspondence, 1939-1940
"The World is Yours" Program, 1938-1940
"The World is Yours," 1936-1940
"The World is Yours" Script 1
"The World is Yours" Script 2
"The World is Yours" Newspaper Clippings, 1938-1939
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